...become notorious for its bad taste, began with the scathing sentence: "The poetry of this young lord belongs to the class which neither gods nor men are said to permit." Its attitude was certainly not calculated to encourage or soothe the youthful poet, and with his usual...

...translated. By George Gordon, Lord Byron, a Minor. 8vo, pp. 200. Newark, 1807. THE poesy of this young lord belongs to the class which neither gods nor men are...in either direction from that exact standard. His «cffusions are spread over a dead flat, and can no more get (above or below the level, than if they...

...lull me to rest. 1 Vol. xi, January 1808, 285 f. The review begins : " The poesy of this young lord belongs to the class which neither gods nor men are said to permit." It is reprinted in LJ, i, Appendix ii, pp. 344 f. For excerpts from other notices of Hours of Idleness...

...The notice opens thus: "The poesy of this young lord belongs to the class which neither God nor man are said to permit. Indeed we do not recollect to...with so few deviations in either direction from that standard." This sets the key of stiff and high-flown irony in which the whole is written. Such a mood...

...Other than Scotch Reviewers', Modem Language Notes, LEX (1944), 547-50. The poesy of this young lord belongs to the class which neither gods nor men are said to permit.1 Indeed, we do not recollect to have seen a quantity of verse with so few deviations in either...

...a Minor. Svo. pp. 200. Newark. 1807. [Edinburgh Review — Jan. 1808.] THE poesy of this young lord belongs to the class which neither gods nor men are...standard. His effusions are spread over a dead flat, aud can no more get above or below the level, than if they were so much stagnant water. As an extenuation...

...Byron's "Hours of Idleness," in which are found the following observations. "The poesy of this young Lord belongs to the class, which neither Gods nor men are...have seen a quantity of verse, with so few deviations from that exact standard. His effusions are spread over a dead flat, and can no more get above or below...

..."This will never do!" said a great critic, of Tennyson's first attempts. " The poesy of this youug lord belongs to the class which neither gods nor men are said to permit," said Lord Jeffrey of Byron. So fared Coleridge himself at first, and Shelley, and Collins, and Gray,...

...journals treat the first talents of our time every morning or evening. " The poetry of this young lord belongs to the class which neither gods nor men are said to permit. . . . His effusions are spread over a dead flat, and can no more get above or below the level than...

...vigorous, of English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. "The poetry of this young lord," says the Review, " belongs to the class which neither gods nor men are said to permit ; and our counsel is," it adds, " that he do forthwith abandon poetry and turn his talents which are...